Movies

Where Do The Hundreds Of Millions Of Dollars Go To Produce A Marvel Movie?

August 5, 2021 Leave a Comment

About half the money, give or take, is for above the line talent. So you have your actors, directors, producers, ect. They get paid in a percentage or in absurdly high amounts for films.

These people are also accommodate on set so production has to rent out luxury campers to house them for weeks or months at a time when on location.

Then they need to hire drivers and trucks to move those campers. Top tier stars can make demands on top of that.

I saw Jim Carrey’s camper once and it had an entire astroturf lawn on top of it, with a picnic table, with a vase with flowers on it. Don’t ask me why he wanted it, he just did.

How Do You Differentiate Good Acting From Bad Acting?

July 19, 2021 Leave a Comment

I’m a director who has been working with actors for almost 30 years, and I’m the son of a film historian. I’ll give you my definition of good acting. But I really want to stress (for the last time, then I’ll quit) is that if I say Pacino is great and you disagree, my experience does not make me right and you wrong. It just means we have different tastes.

For me, an actor is good if …

Was Deckard a Replicant in Blade Runner?

February 18, 2021 Leave a Comment

In the Theatrical cut the answer is left ambiguous. In the Director’s and Final cuts the answer is definitely yes. In the Theatrical cut most widely seen in the US there are still hints that Deckard might be a replicant which include:

The fact that there is no mention of, or questions asked about, Deckard’s life during the period between his (alleged) previous stint as a police officer and the events of the film. The only exception being the mention of a failed marriage early in the film.

What’s So Different About Zack Snyder’s Directors Cut of Justice League?

February 15, 2021 Leave a Comment

Zack Snyder shot 5 hours of assembly footage during principle photography in 2016. From that, he edited it to 214 mins(3.5 hours) and was happy to call it his director’s cut. From this, he was happy to edit it down to 3 hours for the theatrical cut, and release the 3.5 hour directors cut in Blu-ray.

Why Does Frankie Pentangeli Immediately Change His Story When He Sees His Brother?

February 5, 2021 Leave a Comment

The finished film leaves unclear exactly what about his brother’s presence motivated Frank to change his story. The final film only states that Vincenzo is himself a Mafia chieftain in Sicily.

An early draft of the film explains that Vincenzo, shocked that Frankie is about to break his blood oath and betray the Corleones to government authorities, attends the hearing to remind Frankie that he must not break the Mafia’s code of silence, Omertà.

What Is The Argument Among Some Star Wars Fans That The Empire Was Right?

December 21, 2020 Leave a Comment

The Empire was the best damn thing that happened to the galaxy in a millennia.

A lot of the pro-rebel history holovids try to portray the Galactic Empire as a tyranny that seized power via treachery and deceit, but this simply isn’t true and even the most cursory of inspections will back me up.

Let’s say you lived in an outlying territory during the age of the Republic and your town or village was being repeatedly raided by bandits. What was your recourse? You’d appeal to your local commissioner, who in turn would refer your case to your Senator, who’d promise to take your case to the Senate. And then? Nothing. You might go for months before you heard anything, and even then, it would only be that such and such committee had agreed to hear your case at some point in the future. In the meantime, your family and friends would continue getting slaughtered, and your livestock stolen.